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- Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of…
- Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical…
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- I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke
- The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world. — Denis Hayes
- If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier
- Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis
- On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of… — Simon Conway Morris
- The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how… — Barack Obama
- Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein